THE P.A.B.O CHAMPIONSHIP 🏆
Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd August 2026
Hosted by The Keys Leisure Centre
80 Victorian Bowlers and 20 Interstate bowlers meet for the final weekend of the P.A.B.O 2026.
Bowling a 3 games series, where the top 32 bowler proceed to the knockout rounds until one lucky bowler claims the Championship and $15,000 cash!
It’s anyone’s game 🎳
Previous winners:
🏆 2025: Blake Walsh (QLD)
🏆 2024: Bernie Greuso Jnr (VIC)
🏆 2023: Mick Talevski (VIC)
🏆 2022: David Cooper (VIC)
HEAD TO PABO.com.au for full details and registrations!
PLEASE DO NOT SELL the signed balls I left behind after the WSOB. They’re were specifically left for the high school and Junior Gold kids travelling to MN soon!!
Don’t be that person.
2026 season: that went by way too quick. Lots of mileage across the USA, mentally and physically tiring on and off the lanes. Bit of a mixed bag season - started decently, teetered off and finished decently. Some positives along with a lot of frustrations. But being surrounded by the right people helped at all times. Marshall, AJ and Tun - we shared all those times together this year, although lots more laughs that outweigh everything else. Can’t wait to do it again next season.
Thank you to all my sponsors - Motiv, VISE, VIS, Cornerpins Standings, Watkins Therapy Group, Shellharbour Bowl - grateful for the opportunities given to me to continue to hurl an orb at stationary white sticks.
Now to go home and begin the off season events - Lexus of Townsville, Malaysian Open, Singapore Open, Melbourne Cup in the next few weeks.
Spent the last day and a half at the CTD facility shooting some video (to come soon) and getting some practice in. Also saw a lot of cool products and old gems that have been collected over the years. Thank you to Ron Hickland for having us!!
EJ Tackett leads the PBA Players Championship with rookie CJ Petrin in P4! 5 #TeamMOTIV bowlers are moving on to the Advancers Round! Keep an eye out for a few free agents throwing a lot of MOTIV as well! The Advancers Round begins tonight at 7 pm ET #MOTIVNATION
We struck a lot this weekend in Schenectady at Town Bowling Academy. Coming away with the Team 1st and 3rd placings and 2 other cashes, hit the 3-6-9 and 30 cleans twice. Thank you to @lizkbeth13 for organising the teams and everyone I bowled with across 4 squads.
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Threw 2 balls all weekend:
Evoke Mayhem 🩵💜🩷
Venom Shock 🔵🟣
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All new Evoke Mayhem. Already feels like this will be as popular as the Hysteria has been, and super keen for it this season.
WWRD: 2/11/2026 (11/2/2026)
#motivbowling #motiv #getmotivated #viseinserts #vise
Made the drive to Chacko’s Family Bowling Centre today for the Chacko’s Scratch Doubles and we came out of the gates pretty strong shooting 589 (I gagged in the 11th) followed by a couple more big games until we hit a funky pair but settled for 2nd in qualifying. Got to matchplay and won our 4 matches to come away with the win. Thanks @steel243 for bowling with me today!
Balls used:
Trusty Venom Shock 🔵🟣
Raptor Rush 🟡
#MOTIVNATION #getMOTIVated #EarnIt #VISE #VISEinserts
Available NOW!!
Apex Jackal is already proving to be a keeper, keen to get myself some scores with this one!!
Layout: 25x4.5x35
Left: 2025 TBA Emu 38ft
Right: 2025 PBA Scorpion 43ft
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